STATE OF CONTRA - 5 : VIVA O BRAZIL

Politics at its best...

A president being impeached for corruption charges which she didn't commit by a senate of politicians who are all facing corruption charges. And I thought India had issues in politics.

Well..I guess you can't expect much from a country who has a women's party with all male members in legislature. I guess having a female president is still not enough for gender equality.

I guess this is what you get when you have one of the witless constitution. Like nearly everything has to be either written or amended.

A country that was flying high with its economy crashed like a dead bird within no time. It's surprising how they concealed all this cracks while putting a great show outwards. Well, I guessing giving false optimistic hopes of one's economy is the new trend. Greece got away with it. Didn't they?

First they loose the football world cup...well loosing is me being a bit too sympathetic...they were screwed by the German's. Now, it seems like Olympics is going to be a gone too.

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STATE OF CONTRA - 4 : Full of crap

Manual Scavenging - cleaning of human excreta ...ewwww....shit...yeah real human crap...by people who are employed to do just that. This is the sickest version of social discrimination and economic exploitation. Patriarchy, poverty, hunger and caste plays a major role in these people's woes. 98% are women. Well..Amen to gender equality. Why are such undignified tasks left to the lower caste women. Caste and gender is rising its ugly head all over the place. Most of the time they are paid in kind, mostly food grains. 

Lower Castes get  100% of  jobs as manual scavengers, and no one bats an eye. But they ask for 50 % of other jobs and everyone loses their minds.

Women getting 98% jobs in manual scavenging and no one bats an eye. They ask for 33 % seats in parliament and everyone loses their minds.

The funny this is that these people are hired as unofficial contract laborers by the Indian railway to clean tracks and municipal corporations to clean urban areas. But there is actually a law (prohibition of employment as manual scavengers and their rehabilitation act, 2013) which Govt. has passed outlawing this shit. But, who cares about puny laws. Laws are meant to be broken, Right. 

We pass them, We break them. That is how we rule. 

Each job has its own dignity, well...cut the crap...it doesn't. This is not a fucking job, its bloody exploitation. Its human rights violation.

STATE OF CONTRA - 3 : Finance 101

Seriously, people should learn how to get a loan from Vijay Mallya. Hats of to you man. Not just because you ran away money that actually belong to poor people of the country, but because of the way you got away with it so coolly. If it was some poor farmer who had pledged his property, the banks would have jumped on him like a pride of lions attacking a deer. Mercilessly throwing him out of his livelihood all because of a failed monsoon or something which he couldn't control. And Mallya, the banks are trying to find him, to get him answerable to court, no hooliganism, no acquiring of property, no freeze. I personally like to ask Mallya how he got the bloody loans in the first place. I can't even get a loan for 1 million, without giving security for at least 10 million. Also, don't forget all those legal documents one has to submit. oh my god. Pheww.. But, not Mallya. He just asked and they gave him the 9000 crore just like that. I am impressed.
The funny thing is now he is actually deciding the terms of how he is going to give the money back. WOW.
And to make the matters still hilarious, the RBI and Supreme court is having a tug of war to whether disclose the names of the other major defaulters. It is said that SC was stunned on seeing the list and amount of money they owe. If you have to blow the mind of an SC jury, I guess it should be a really HUGE amount of money. And we have a Govt. crying India needs investment. Dude, just get back these loans, there will be enough money to lend to all farmers and entrepreneurs to Make for India.

STATE OF CONTRA - 2 : Cooperative Federalism

Reading about the 14th Financial commission. Horizontal devolution. its just a fancy name to say that the states will be given a larger share of tax revenue from the consolidated tax income generated by the central Govt. But why, mainly because they need the states to withdraw their claim to many taxes they currently collect and pass the Goods and Services Tax bill. Well, the states will lose their income directly which the center will reimburse them afterwords. But there is catch, the states who are high earning loses their ability to generate tax revenue while the funds are channeled to the poorer states. The big, populous, poor states will get a greater share of the revenue which they can spend on development. But the question is will they, the states who actually do well by earning better won't get any money to sustain its economic and social development projects. If in the name of equity, the states which are growing are not nourished, this will pull back the whole fucking economy. These better states could only reach this current position by implementing welfare measures like population control, school and healthcare, roads etc. The poorer states first needs direct action by the Center first to develop an infrastructure after which the fund given by center will be actual used other than just vanishing in the pockets of few.

STATE OF CONTRA (pun intended) - 1

Everyday, I read the news, a bad habit I started for the past 4 months. Really...it all stated with that...odd- even, sedition, nationalism, dissolutions , Productivity, beef ban, elections, and what not.

The statistics that show poverty in India gives a varied picture between 27 % to 52 %. why the hell is this so high? It has been 6 decades since independence and still we have so much poverty. Govt. shows predictions of a 7 % economic growth; where the hell is the growth, seriously, who is growing. We have the largest youth population in the world, but lucky for us, most of them are unskilled, unemployable, or unemployed. There has been lots of initiatives to rise employment through Skill India, Startup India, Make in India but can such a weak manufacturing sector provide jobs for our rising unemployed workforce which is growing like rabbits. The service sector growth is not providing more opportunities as it is incapable of such large employment. On top of that, water management is joke in this nation. We either have floods or droughts and we blame climate change. Yeah, I agree, Climate change is a bitch, but we can take measures to mange water resources, reduce wastage, provide methods for recharge of ground water, prioritize usage. There are ways to solve almost any problems. Then again the new question comes up. who will solve it?. No, In India that question is meaningless...it's more like, Who is there to fucking assign blame to?. The state of institutional fragmentation is so huge that there are multiple departments which should do the same fucking job but won't do shit and blames each other for their own freaking delay. I still haven't got a clue where the Govt. is spending the money it gained by the lowering of international oil prices and rising domestic oil prices. Like, seriously, they should have earned a fortune with the trade deficit so low and the low inflation..They could have done something huge. But what do they do, cut the expenditure in public health. Bravo. That too, in the primary and secondary healthcare. They don't care if there is malnutrition, communicable diseases, pregnancy deaths or something...they are trying to reduce population, by spending on contraceptives and awareness for sterilization, well..now that I think it that way...it makes sense...of course...How do we reduce population...stop people from making new ones and letting the ones already born, die soon. And what more, we need more innovation, Let's not increase the expenditure in R&D. Innovation will come from vacuum. out of the blue. Isn't it. To make things interesting, there is this guy from some temple saying all rapes are happening because women enter temples. Holy shit. I can't for the loving mother of god, connect that line of thought. Dude..seriously...how can you blame all that to some poor woman who just wanted to put a garland on some deity. But then I remembered - Indian gods hate women, they should be prohibited from doing this, doing that...but I shouldn't be too judgemental ... all gods hate women for that matter...haven't seen a matriarchal religion yet. Guess that is one thing they are united for, Even though they hate women, there is one thing they love..yup you guessed it...Cows...cows shouldn't be slaughtered, people should.I mean ..in our country there is no scarcity of human lives..you don't find another country so serious about conservation and protection of animals than us..the dedication...its actually safer to be a cow in India than a woman..pretty screwed up I guess...And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Well..still...I am hopeful. Why?..I haven;'t got a clue. just an optimistic intuition. The new generation is the hope. The old cannot be corrected. but the new can. Maybe they can find order within the chaos.

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